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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays - Spiritual Laws
Identifier
003649
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - Spiritual Laws 1847
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off.
Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
The river bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the foolish person - however neglected in the passing - have a grace in the past.
The source of the experience
Emerson, Ralph WaldoConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBeing left handed
Communing with nature
Contemplation and detachment